Bruce McIntyre wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 07:28:42PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > as fbi (the frame buffer image viewer) also wraps the screen, albeit on > > > the other side, does this mean we are barking up the wrong config? > > > perhaps this is a kernel thing... > > > > Unlikely. As I mentioned already, I suspect both fbi and X handle the > > framebuffer offset incorrectly, both in different ways. > > > > Someone would really have to clean up the offset handling in fbdevhw.c > > and/or fbdev.c, I can't really do it because I don't have hardware where > > this applies. > > Michael Lanners has some more intelligent (than mine) documentation on this > problem, as well as the beginnings of a fix. > See http://mcp.cpu.lu/~mlan/linux/dev/xf4.html
I have fixed fbdevhw beyond the patch on that page with the help of Geert. I have hopefully found the bug in the fbdev driver now, please test http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/patches/fbdev-fboffset.diff or http://penguinppc.org/~daenzer/fbdev_drv.o which is the 4.1.0 fbdev driver built with the patch applied. If it works, I'll submit it to Branden and upstream. > Should someone file a bug against xserver-fbdev ? Did you mean xserver-xfree86? Either way, I don't think it's useful (xserver-fbdev is outdated) or necessary (the relevant XFree86 developer (me ;) is aware of the problem). -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
